2nd Blogoversary Week: Renovation Saga

As part of Blogoversary Week, I’ll be taking a look back at the Frugal Kiwi’s second year and the big events we’ve had going on. Today, I’m looking at the Renovation Saga.

We moved from Auckland to the house Frugal Man’s granddad built in Northland and promptly started updating the 1930s bungalow. We bashed down the chimney, made freaking big holes in the floor, created a great room of the kitchen and lounge and were completely floored by the gorgeous native timber floor we (mostly he) revealed with three weeks of sanding, filling and sealing.

We’ve also spent some time and effort trying to save energy by using super simple BubbleWrap Window Insulation and more permanent DIY Magnetic Double Glazing. More impressive savings-wise was our switch from a standard fridge-freezer that was costing us $430/year in electricity to run to a modification of a chest freezer into a Energy Efficient DIY Chest Fridge that is now costing us only $20/year in electricity. That isn’t a typo-we will save over $400 a year from that one change alone!

Do you have a favorite post of the Renovation Saga? Sing out in the comments.

Don’t forget to enter to win the gorgeous Celtic silver and amethyst earrings and bracelet set that are the giveaway for the Blogoversary celebration.

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Hopefully your site will grow and grow as it inspires people to look outside the box and think about something in different ways and what different uses it could be put to. Maybe the whole of society needs a fundamental shift to this way of thinking rather than it is broken we will throw it away and buy another one. We need to get back to it is broken how do I fix it philosophy.